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Taliban Facts For Kids. The Taliban gained increasing recognition power and support and by 1997 Pakistan Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan. It quickly subdued the local warlords who controlled the south of the country. Afghanistan War Facts - 7. As the Taliban gained more control they began to enforce new laws.
The Taliban is an Islamic militant group operating in Afghanistan and western Pakistan. The Taliban was an organized force for social order created in 1994 in Kandahār. The Taliban were allied with al-Qaeda and would not turn Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders over to the United States. The Taliban is a religious and political group that came to power in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s. When the group formed most of its members were former students of Islamic religious schools. In 1996 after seven years of fighting a group called the Taliban took control of Afghanistan.
Most members are Pashtun the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan.
In 2007 when Malala was 10 the Taliban took over the Swat District of Pakistan. Women would not be allowed to vote or have jobs. Taliban means students in Pashto an official language of Afghanistan. Girls schools that were not shut down were burned or destroyed. The Taliban is an extreme Islamic group which ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. KidzSearch Safe Wikipedia for Kids.